Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week he had 21 callers. His good friend, Joseph P. Kennedy, spent an hour with him before packing for Europe and the Court of St. James. Chairman Splawn of the ICC talked over the rate increases which his Commission is expected to grant the railroads. Congressman Lucas of Illinois, fresh from announcing his candidacy for the Senate seat held by William Dieterich, solicited support for his campaign. Aubrey Williams, Administrator of WPA (vice ailing Harry Hopkins), discussed the spending of the new quarter-billion-dollar relief appropriation...
Last night a new Harvard publication made its doubt on the Leverett House news stand for the price of one cent. Volume 1, number 1 of the Rampant Bunny, fresh from the mimeograph, was loudly acclaimed by the Rabbits over the dinner table...
General José Fidel Davila, Defense Minister in the new Rightist Cabinet (see p. 17), ended a fortnight of cautious inaction on the Teruel front, launched an offensive 25 miles north of Teruel which this week swept forward at least 18 miles. In the ominous calm which preceded this fresh blast in Spain's storm, Britain's lanky No. 1 commentator on military affairs, famed Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, leaned back in a London armchair last week, pondered, then wrote his professional opinion-thoughtful if iffy-on the next six months of Spain's civil...
China's heavily fortified defense line, the so-called "Hindenburg Line" about 200 miles north of captured Nanking (see p. 17), was being approached from both sides by fresh Japanese thrusts last week with such vigor that Hankow dispatches reported the aplomb of the Chinese Government there "shattered...
Last week that 30-pound manuscript was published-a grisly, 345-page document that sent queasy readers out for fresh air, sounded fantastic enough to be the truth. Less emotional than Dreyfus' famed account of his five-year exile, Belbenoit's covers more ground, is heavy with unrelieved nightmare...